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Re:Flutter desktop shells by sbilstein on Thursday April 25, 2019 @10:38AM (#19748609)
If you are handy with Java, Typescript or Javascript, Dart is a breeze to learn. I didn't invest any time learning Dart to get productive with it while using flutter.
Re:Flutter desktop shells by egeozcan on Thursday April 25, 2019 @10:42AM (#19748649)
I was just about to write more or less the same comment before I decided to refresh the page.

I just started coding as if I was working with a version of Typescript.

I only Google from time to time for the standard library docs.

Re:Flutter desktop shells by Barrin92 on Thursday April 25, 2019 @01:57PM (#19750774)
Same here. it feels like a very generic algol family language, and if you're familiar with any of them it's almost trivial to pick up to the point where you can just sort of write it and figure things out as you go.

That was in fact the most pleasant things about Flutter for me, the language was a non-barrier.

Re:Flutter desktop shells by beckler on Thursday April 25, 2019 @10:58AM (#19748838)
for me there were only some syntactic sugar things I had to learn.
Re:Flutter desktop shells by StreamBright on Thursday April 25, 2019 @11:09AM (#19748960)
Yes but there is also the question why don't I learn React, Rust or Clojure instead of Dart. Am I going to be better of knowing Dart?
Re:Flutter desktop shells by expliced on Thursday April 25, 2019 @11:35AM (#19749226)
Dart is based on js and flutter is based on react. Going from js+react to dart+flutter will not be that difficult. Learn both.